On Wednesday 19 June 2002 00:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:57, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > So how do I make an installation disk since my old i386 \ > > doesn't boot from CDROM? > > > > I dd'd the root.bin to floppy because the README said this > > was needed for the install.. I have to use rescue? That's > > strange.. > > Yes, you initially boot from the "rescue" disk. That befuddled > be when I came to Debian, since, to my mind, I didn't need rescu- > ing. > > It should be documented more clearly that it is a "boot and rescue" > disk...
I think it's more or less become a habit for Linux distros sometime in the past. IIRC, SuSE Linux 1.0 (man, was that some kind of creepy first contact all because I wanted a C compiler...) already had a "rescue" disk and I could imagine it kind of stuck. -- Embedded Linux -- True multitasking! TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]